PDF printing upside down

[Peter Normington]

Neil is it only pdf’s?

or is it the same for say a tiff or jpg?

Peter

[Neil Kelly]

Its just pdfs

not sure about tiffs and jpegs as they are saved and not printed To

my concern is customers having to rotate onscreen to see them the right way up. i can rotate in Signlab and then print and this works but is a bit of a pain but if you have dimensions on screen they stay upside down.

[Peter Normington]

Sorry Neil
do you mean when you publish to pdf, to send to a client, or when you physically print?

Peter

[Neil Kelly]

Not sure what you mean by publish.

i select the design and clik File Print
instead of my printer i click on Adobe PDF in the list and it creates preview
i hit print and select the folder to save into
hit save and then Adobe Acrobat opens showing what it has just created but has the item upside down i have tried rotating and saving but when you open the document again its upside down again.

[Tim Painter]

Neil I assume you mean creating a PDF via Acrobat Pro and going through the motions you would to print but outputing a PDF?

[Neil Kelly]

yes that what i am doing
any ideas what I’m doing wrong Tim

[Tim Painter]

I get the same sometimes from Corel but found landscape inverted sorted it.

You can alter the settings for each output type and customise – try changing the short edge leading etc on the customisation. You should have Ebook, screen, print,press setups. These can be customised.

Acrobat viewer will let you amend the PDF ie rotate but when you save it has no effect. You should have Acrobat (Not the viewer) Installed you will have to fire this up and open the file as by default just clicking the file will open your reader, not the Pro Acrobat.

In pro you can rotate and save and it will stay rotated.

Let me know how you go.

Tim.

[Peter Normington]

Neil
try publish to pdf, rather that print to.

Peter

[Simon Strom]

I have a few ideas. I don’t actually use SignLab but might be able to figure it out. Usually there are a few places to set the rotation (which I still don’t understand why there are so many places you have to set it).

The first is usually a Page Layout (FreeHand) or Illustrator (Document Setup > Orientation) where you can choose portrait or landscape. I would guess SignLab would have something similar to this.

Secondly you usually also must go into specific settings in the print dialog as well. I know there is a pull down menu that I can select the ppd and a "paper set-up" in FreeHand that must be set correctly or it won’t even print to an actual printer much less a pdf.

If those settings are set correctly then it’s possible that the ppd or even SignLab has a bug. There might be a setting in Acrobat Pro (or if your using Distiller a setting there) that is also changing the rotation. I’ve had this problem before when we went from FreeHand 9 to MX. All our old files had to be rotated in the print set-up to the opposite setting to get our pdf’s to come out right side up. I usually just rotate all the pages 180 degrees in Acrobat Pro and then re-save the pdf if they come out upside down. Although it is a little bit of a pain do it that.

Let us know if you figure it out.

[Phill Fenton]

I’m with Peter – "Publish" to pdf from signlab will fix the problem.

[Neil Kelly]

Didn’t quite no what you meant at first by publish to PDF
as i hadn’t noticed the button in the file menu

but good news it works the only negative is their is no preview even when i ticked the preview box.
thanks Peter / Phill

Hi Simon i tried what you suggested to solve the print to pdf problem but it just wont flip it round even after i have rotated and save as new file when i open it is still upside down. there’s got to be a setting somewhere hidden away
that i haven’t found yet.

Thanks for your time and input ill keep looking and in the mean time use the publish without preview.

Neil…

[Alan Drury]

It has been mentioned before and I have the same, producing a pdf using a print method ie Acrobat or similar produces a pdf which is upside down. Yes publish to pdf within SL cures it but printing has always been easier for me. Every other programme I use produces a correct pdf so I can only assume it is a SL issue. I’m on V8 and my V7.1 does not have this issue.
Frank/Rod any ideas?
Alan D

[Peter Normington]

I dont have a problem printing to pdf from sl V8 build 7

Just tried with a few jobs and printed correct way up every time

Peter

[Alan Drury]

I’m on build 06 so I’ll get the later build and see if that sorts it. Cadlink used to announce a new build on their website, I must have missed it.
Cheers Peter

Alan D

[Alan Drury]

Peter, what version of Acrobat are you using? I’ve just tried build 7 for SL and that locks up SL completely, Cute still prints upside down.
I’m usin Acrobat V5 – a bit long in the tooth but SL7.1 has no issues at all.
Alan D

[Peter Normington]

Alan
V8.1.4
Peter

[Alan Drury]

Cheers Peter

[Neil Kelly]

Im using V 7.1 revision 1

i will see what later builds are available and try that

Thanks for all the feed back…